Seeker was alone in the apartnt for the stream that night. Due to the exhausted appearances of Lynd and ryl, Seeker agreed to do it alone. The last stream was barely two hours long when Seeker completed the ga.
Seeker once again rose to internet fa as he defeated the ga in less than 19 hours. It wasn't far from Arthur's predicted ti. This was already a record which even Precept Gaming had to acknowledge. No one was able to beat the current ga at this ti. Even among the pros, the estimate was about 22-33 hours excluding the top brass like Precision.
After the stream, Seeker went ho and gave his parents a delightful surprise.
"Five hundred thousand Sydians?!" Grace cried out in excitent.
Chris was just looking at the amount of money that Seeker casually handed over as 'pocket money' for their trip.
"This is too much Zeek. We could afford the trip of ourselves. No need to give those…" Chris never had this much money in their bank account.
"Mom, Dad. Don't worry. I don't need this much. I really don't. I already earn a lot with my online celebrity status. So take the money. You can go on a shopping spree or travel the world or sothing. I'll probably be leaving too. After tomorrow I could be on my way to Australia for the Nations of the World E-Sport et. Principal Decker was just kind enough to approve about a week-long leave at school." Seeker calmly explained.
Grace and Chris looked at each other and smiled.
"You know what, use the money to go elsewhere. I can probably earn enough to pay for whatever we need by the ti you get back. If we win the tournant, which I am confident of, I should be able to take ho about two hundred to five hundred thousand Sydians." Seeker laughed.
"No, we just can't. Seeker, you are an adult now. And with this building career of yours, we want you to grow and to learn how to properly manage your funds. And I believe that letting you have a free reign over your money would be a better teacher than having and your mom manage your funds. Right now, I think a little personal experience with that money can help you grow." Chris instructed.
"Of course, we appreciate this gesture of having us hold on to your money but it's better if we discuss your plans now and just give you advice," Grace spoke dearly to the son who he was extrely proud of.
"Who said anything about giving you all my money? I have more. I even gave Lynd and ryl the roughly a two hundred thousand so they can send their parents on an all-expense paid vacation." Seeker interrupted.
The two parents stood silently. It was as if they tried to analyze Seeker's statent like it was a profound riddle or math problem.
"You gave your two friends two hundred thousand Sydians?" Grace calmly asked.
"Two hundred each. So four hundred." Seeker nodded.
"Seeker. Have you lost your mind?" Grace tried to control her voice.
"What? No. I did what I felt I should do with my money. Like what you just said." Seeker shrugged.
"I gave away so of my money to my friends and so to you. Think of it as a thank you to them for helping . But I will be managing my money from here on."
"You gave away FOUR HUNDRED THOUSAND?" Grace's tone rose drastically.
"Yeah. They earned it. They've been helping , you know. Both in advertising and all the technical help. They deserve it."
"How much money do you have left?" Chris interrupted.
"Including this five hundred thousand? About 4.5 million give or take. I earned quite a lot with all the advertising and stuff. ryl and Lynd really outdid themselves. Not to ntion I got a lot of investors now who hold in high regard." Seeker smiled. It helped that his parents weren't well-versed in gaming jargons.
"Give us One Million- Two million Sydians." Chris demanded. He was about to demand one million when he felt his wife giving him a strong pinch.
"Ok. I'll just withdraw so more tomorrow. Go wild on your trip guys. Love you." Seeker kissed his parent's goodnight.
"Typical of mom." Seeker mumbled happily under his breath as he walked back to his room.
Seeker's parents took the money and quietly walked towards their room. Howls of dented shouts and excited cries were heard as the late hours passed.
Seeker was the first to arrive at the apartnt the very next day.
He was already setting up his computer for the big ga.
Lynd and ryl arrived together.
"You guys alright?" Seeker smiled as he looked at the tired eyes of his two assistants.
Lynd gave an obvious look at Seeker.
ryl had a worried one.
"Are we going to do that training later?" ryl asked sheepishly.
"A different kind this ti. Yesterday I needed to work on my gun skills. Tonight, it's going to be a close combat bonanza." Seeker smiled.
ryl was in tears.
"So, any signs of improvent?"
The two shook their heads helplessly.
Seeker laughed.
"It's alright. We have a lot of ti to prepare. I bet another day or two and you can sohow touch on the basics of pushing your brain to a higher level of Unlocking."
The two sighed as they heard Seeker.
"Is there a trick? How does it feel when you try to push your brain harder?" ryl asked.
"Yeah, Zeek? What's the trick? I tried to concentrate so hard that my face turned red but nothing happened."
Seeker laughed as he rembered his 'younger' days.
"Are you sure you were concentrating and not contracting all the muscles you can control in your general head area? Were you holding your breath as you tried to contract your muscles?" Seeker laughed.
"I was uh... trying sothing." Lynd gave n embarrassed response.
"Don't worry. The more you experience it, the more you get the hang of it."
"How sure are you this will work? Was this done on you?" ryl asked.
"No of course not. The scenarios of my unlocking involved Charles. Due to the war, we were forced to evacuate this country. I t Charles during the escape and at that ti Charles already had developed a serum that was untested. One thing led to another and eventually got exposed to these drugs which pushed my brain straight to the Unbecoming stage."
"If that's how you got unlocked, then how sure are you that this will work?"
"Because there were records of people getting Unlocked during the war. So even Unlocked themselves without getting into life-threatening situations."
"How? We even went through hell and couldn't do that, then how can others do that?" ryl had a curious look.
"I don't know. Even I can't even comprehend how so managed to do so." Seeker shrugged.
The group continued on to prepare for the stream. It was ti for Seeker to rule the gaming world.
Seeker wasn't lying about the sponsorship. Three international studios purchased the rights to air Seeker's stream on their channels for a pay-per-view set-up. Aside from that several local cable channels also did the sa. It was pure hype. On the Internet, it was known as the Gamble of the Ages.
It was an arrogant claim. Even Precept Gaming has announced that it was virtually impossible to complete the ga in less than eight hours. The theoretical minimum would be the previous record that Seeker did. Although Precisions claim was even shorter, it still fell within the scope of possibilities that Precept Gaming announced.
The mont the room opened a gushing number of viewers imdiately joined in. The room had over a thousand viewers almost instantly. But despite this number, the room remained quiet. In this room, the list of nas of online viewers contained nas that any gar in the world would know.
The Covenant of the Strongest had their complete line up logged in for the stream. Competing Piercing e-sport celebrities were also present.
Git Godlike of the Australian Oceana was also present. This caused the unusual silence in the room. Two of the most competitive Piercing teams who were also basically mortal enemies were here.
"Begin." A commanding ssage displayed when the room was deathly silent.
He was also another reason why the room was silent.
Arthur coldly commanded. It was clear he was here to see the demise of Seeker. Various fans of Seeker didn't have the heart to even congratulate Seeker. They knew that doing so would display irreverence to Precision.
"Haha. Chill Arts! Just sit back and enjoy what you paid for!"
If that ssage just ca from anyone, he would have felt the wrath of fans who was disrespectful from their fans. But the ga handle of this person had a simple, yet very domineering na. Cronus, the commander of Git Godlike.
Arthur didn't even bother to respond and just watched the screen.
"Hahaha." Seeker laughed as he finally broke the silence.
"My oh my. So much tension in the room. Well, here we are. Is it my 'judgent' day? Or my day of triumph? Many may have well-rembered that I just completed Piercing: Bullet last night. But today, I will do it again in a little over seven hours. I see many people here to watch my aweso skills. And also another group who ca to see bury my gaming career. Quite a gamble I've placed here and Arthur really made tie my hands." Seeker smiled.
"If I fail, I end my career which ans I have no way of joining Git Godlike even if they did offer sothing. I signed the papers and the lawyers have made the necessary preparations to set up this amazing gamble." Seeker took out a piece of paper. It was a legal docunt which formalized everything.
"I just hope that Arthur won't be mad at for wrecking his prophecies. Now. Let us begin." Seeker imdiately started a new ga in Piercing: Bullet.
The sa cut scène appeared where Bullet was happily whistling and later started massacring his enemies.
Seeker didn't bother to stay too long and imdiately went ahead on to the next room to face the boss.
As Seeker continued to attack and evade, a peculiar trend was seen.
"He's still using the lee build but abandoned the skill training?" Arthur frowned. In all his calculations of trying to pass the ga at record speed, this was the way to go. Skill and proficiency training was the best way.
People then noticed it when Seeker was fighting the boss.
An avalanche of comnts started to pour out on the room.
Seeker smiled as he saw this.
"I understand your surprise friends. But if I want to beat this ga at that ti, I have no ti for skill training. You'll understand how I will compensate for this." Seeker smiled mysteriously and continued to attack the boss.
The boss fight took longer than his first playthrough. Without the skills and added damage from the proficiency of the attacks, Seeker spent more than 2 minutes facing the boss. As was already a standard, Seeker had yet to receive one hit.
Seeker looked like he was casually playing. But his viewers were excited. Almost every attack that Seeker used was skill based. It was killing two birds with one stone. Seeker was slowly building the proficiency levels of his current skill as he progressed in the ga.
Various comnts about Seeker's antics continued. However, most of the pros or well-known figures of the gaming world kept silent. There was nothing new in Seeker's progression. If anything, he sacrificed quite a bit of ti by doing this. This was vastly noticed as Seeker progressed. Every boss fights were longer than usual.
Arthur didn't look worried. He gazed straight at the screen and even looked like he expected Seeker to follow this route.
The ga continued to progress and soon, over an hour passed.
Arthur was now smirking as ti passed. The speed of Seeker wasn't anything special.
"Now. So may have noticed that my speed, although it is pretty fast, this won't be enough for to pass the entire ga to win the bet. But after this boss, I should be able to skip over ten hours of gaplay." Seeker smiled.
Arthur had a shocked expression.
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